How to optimize your app for monetization by the next month

TLDR:

• To monetize your app quickly, it's all about distribution.
• Maximize the concept of App Store Optimization (ASO) for better visibility.
• Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for faster user feedback.
• Emphasize user retention through push notifications, personalized recommendations, and good customer support
• Analyze data and make data-driven decisions taking into account user insights
• Look to strategically monetize your app with methods like the Freemium Model, Subscription Model, and Affiliate Marketing.

Your app can have all the bells and whistles it needs for the relevant target demographic of the niche you’re trying to target, but often times when looking to monetize, you stumble across a boulder that just won’t budge no matter what you do.

There’ll also be apps within the niche you’re targeting that you cannot believe are even monetizable, and nine times out of ten, the biggest reason is they have better distribution.

Distribution matters just as much if not more than the quality of the product, but in cases like these, how well you’re distributing your app is the key differential between you and that crappy app that is somehow topping the charts on both the App Store and Play Store.

To help you begin bridging the gap, we’ll go over the 5 best distribution methods to scale your app to single-digit revenue in under a month.

1. Maximizing App Store Optimization (ASO)

Like search engine optimization (SEO), the app stores also have their own version.

Optimize your app’s name, description, keywords, and visuals based on your niche and the target demographic to ensure it is easier for them to be directed to your app and rank on top in search results more frequently.

2. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

If you’re looking to expedite the monetization process, you can build a minimum-viable product. It should be an app with core features that address your target demographic’s most pressing problems.

If you don’t know what their most pressing problems are, you can look to collect data by analyzing user reviews of apps similar to yours and ones within your niche, conduct online surveys by sending them to forum communities and subreddits and even asking people you know who may be a part of the niche you’re building an app for.

This approach allows you to get your app on the store for people to download quicker, gather feedback, and make the necessary improvements in a timely manner.